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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「賊人膽虛」 and its explanation.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「賊人膽虛」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It is a metaphor that people who have done bad things always feel uneasy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zéi rén dǎn xū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaak3 yan4 daam2 heui1

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